‘Something Like a Horror Movie’: American Travelers Say They Were Put Out on the ‘Street Like Dogs’ In Turks and Caicos After 24-Hour JetBlue Delay

Going home to Boston proved to be an excruciating ordeal for holiday travelers returning from paradise in Turks and Caicos on JetBlue Airlines. Their flight, scheduled to depart on Dec. 28, was delayed 24 hours. To make matters worse, some of the passengers on Flight 754 said they were kicked out of the airport and left to fend for themselves overnight on the Caribbean island. “To put people out on the streets like animals was definitely something I will never forget for the rest of my life,” a passenger identified as Marty told News 25 in Boston. A video screenshot shows passengers crowding an airport gate. (Photo: YouTube screenshot/Boston 25 News) Marty said there were no hotel rooms available on the island that night. “Just very unsettling, traumatizing experience you have three young kids all looking to you for an answer, a wife looking at you for an answer, for the first time as a husband and as a father and as a man, I had no idea how I was going to shelter my family for a night,” he said. His travel agent was eventually able to find a small hotel room for his family. In a statement, JetBlue...